Interesting advert (PC)

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From: K.Stevenson
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 15:42

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Just read an interesting ad in Personal Computer  Magazine, April 1991
VNU 404, page 135.  It seems that most of us can now sleep easy if the
claim made in this advert  is true -  what will all  you EXPERTS do ?!
Before I pass the details  to you please note  my disclaimer that I do
NOT represent this company in any way and vievs are my own etc etc

Ok whats all the fuss about then ...

Vaccine anti-virus system -  "Vaccine  is virus-non specific detection
software.  It uses  cryptographic checksums to  monitor the  state  of
executables on  a PC or  file-server.  Any change, however caused will
be detected.  Since  Vaccine does not  need to know  about  particular
viruses in order to detect them,  it is future proof.  Once installed,
Vaccine will detect all viruses, past, present and future."

Various other details follow on price etc

This product is sold by S|O|P|H|O|S of England

Well - this should  cut down the  e-mail  to  Virusl-l  if we  can ALL
afford it!

Comments welcome ! (and I can't imagine that there woun't be some)

Kenny Stevenson Edinburgh Uni Comp Service ercn53@uk.ac.ed.ercvax

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